photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
jCross | all galleries >> Galleries >> Best Aviation Shots > Night Rendezvous
previous | next
05-OCT-2006 John Cross Photography

Night Rendezvous

Night Rendezvous.jpg

I had been thinking about this for quite a while. Victor Archer's print got me thinking again. His work is quite inspiring for me. A couple nights ago I got a decent moon shot with a color that set the mood I wanted, and this is the result.

Some time ago Bloke and I did a formation night flight. All the while we were flying I was pondering how to capture the utter coolness of this adventure. We had a full moon and some cumulus, and the scene was almost surreal. Wingy was in the right seat on this flight. I came to the conclusion that there was no way to photograph it in the air and maintain any safety margin; besides, photography was going to be nearly impossible because of the very low light. I was sitting out at the hangar this morning watching the sunrise and drinking a cup of coffee when the inspiration hit me to do it this way. I think it is pretty cool.

Canon EOS 350D
1/160s f/9.0 at 400.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
comment | share
Larry Grace24-Oct-2008 02:48
Good work with this image John. Would love to see a version done with the aircraft tone in the same color as the moon.
V
Wingy 07-Oct-2006 16:05
this is great! can you repeat with a shot of both planes in formation?